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USAF 303rd AESW
Named MAGIC transition organisation in OSD PB2012
OSD planned to provide MAGIC core technologies to the 303rd Aeronautical Systems Wing for further development of a deployable long-endurance UAS. Confirmed as a named office; later 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI execution is a separate fact.
OSD PB2012 — MAGIC JCTD primary record
PE 0603648D8Z · pp. 32–33 · USCENTCOM sponsor
Primary OSD budget exhibit: MAGIC is a USCENTCOM-sponsored JCTD. 120-hour sortie, nominal 1,000 lb / maximum 2,600 lb at 15,000 ft. Modular payload classes: EO/IR, SIGINT, GMTI, wide-area surveillance, communications relay, strike. Transition named to USAF 303rd AESW.
FY2013 NDAA Sec. 927 — integrated SIGINT / WAMI plan
Congressional Record 12 Dec 2012 · ISR Task Force plan due 1 Jan 2013
Statute required a plan for operationally integrated SIGINT able to detect, track and precisely geolocate high-band devices and immediately cue imagery. Named Army Guardrail / ARGUS A160, USAF Blue Moon QRC and DARPA WAND. Consult NSA and USSOCOM.
MAGIC
Medium Altitude Global ISR and Communications
USAF endurance-ISR programme. Air vehicle: Aurora Orion. Office: 645 AESG / BIG SAFARI — the same rapid-acquisition group that ran Gorgon Stare and took Blue Devil residuals. Confirmed as a multi-day ISR platform in that family. A specific MH370 operation is not established and is not ruled out.
MAGIC JCTD initiated
FY2010 Q3 · OSD/DDR&E
Competition among five defence-industry partners. $5m initial to AFRL. CENTCOM persistent-ISR sponsorship in Aurora’s 2010 release.
DARPA WAND
Wide Area Network Detection · coincident WAMI + RF
Live-fly WAMI and RF geolocation fusion in 2012, SOCOM transition, Trident Spectre demonstration. Named in FY2013 NDAA Sec. 927. Part of the overlapping multi-INT ecosystem around Blue Devil and Gorgon Stare. Not shown as an MH370 collector.
273 records in the file.